Thursday, October 15, 2009

Paranoid Android

The Bad NewsWell, it turns out that we Canadian Android (Candroids?) developers are not allowed to sell applications on google app market :_(

The Good News

Jesse Brown of the excellent Search Engine podcast has blogged about my dilemma. Check out the full details here. Here's a snippet of what I wrote:

So, I access the merchant account to give them my bank account details and guess what, no Canada! Wait a minute, I just paid $25 for something that I can't offer in my own country. I moved here from Ireland a number of years ago so I am used to always lagging behind a big neighbour (i.e. England) but when I search online I find out that google doesn't allow Canadian (or Irish for that matter) developers sell on Android market and appears to have no plans to do so in the future.